PETA  lets fur fly with worst dressed list

Cindy Crawford is really in the doghouse with animal rights activists. The former spokesmodel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been named high atop the group’s list of the Worst Dressed of 2004.

Crawford is No. 2 on the dreaded annual list; she ran afoul of the group she had once touted when she started appearing in fur ads this year. “With that big furry mole on her face, you’d think she’d be more sensitive to the plight of animals,” PETA fumed. Following Crawford, Jennifer Lopez comes in at No. 3. “The lives of the animals she wears are like her relationships: short and painful,” PETA tells the Scoop.

Susan Lucci comes in at No. 4, and Ashley Olsen is No. 5 on the list, which will be posted at FurIsDead.com. But newly wed “View” co-host Star Jones Reynolds is No. 1. “With the amount of dead animals she wore at her wedding,” notes PETA, “it looked more like a funeral.”

Being black-balled

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Kitty Kelley got dropped from Washingtonian magazine because of her scathing tell-all book about the Bush family.

Kelley’s name had been on the masthead of the magazine — which is owned by a buddy of the Bushes — for nearly 30 years, but it disappeared without explanation shortly after her book “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” was published. When Kelley asked why, editor Jack Limpert e-mailed her: “[T]here was a considerable reaction here to your Bush book.” He went on to say that Kelley “had crossed a line of responsibility and partisanship that is important to us. We are always willing to attack the policies, and the behavior, of the President. But it seems to us that the office deserves respect.”

Kelley fired back an email. “I recognize the owner’s influence on his magazine and would understand if you said that you needed to remove me from the masthead in order to preserve your job. In fact, I would [have] applauded your honesty,” she wrote. “Instead, you . . .  wrapped your criticism around a pious respect ‘for the office of the President’ and for the private lives of those who occupy the White House. Yet where that same high-mindedness was when the magazine was writing about Bill and Hillary Clinton and publishing rumors in Capital Comment about Julia Thorne’s divorce from John Kerry, I do not know.”

Limpert denies he got any pressure from the owner, and — while he admits that he read only “parts” of the book — tells the Scoop that the move was made because “we did not want the magazine associated with the book.”

Notes from all over

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Alicia Keys might need to clear a little extra space on her mantle. Minutes after the Grammy nominations were announced Tuesday, online betting company BetWWTS.com placed odds — and Keys was favored to win both Album of the Year (The Diary of Alicia Keys with 7/5 odds) and Song of the Year (“If I Ain’t Got You” with 4/5 odds) . . . Minnie Driver threw a bit of a hissy fit at the “Phantom of the Opera” premiere when she was asked to pose with co-star Emmy Rossum, according to the London Mirror, which is calling the incident Driver’s “Tantrum of the Opera.”  . . . Love hurts for Adam Sandler. The “Spanglish” star suffered when co-star Tea Leoni pounded his chest during loves scenes, reports World Entertainment News Network. “It was hurting,” Sandler said. “The camera kept rolling and Tea kept whacking. It did hurt my chest. After take six she was still going for it. My make-up girl would have to run in between takes and put flesh color makeup back on my chest.”

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